blaka
Faroese
editPronunciation
editVerb
editblaka (third person singular past indicative blakaði, third person plural past indicative blakað, supine blakað)
Conjugation
editConjugation of blaka (group v-30) | ||
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infinitive | blaka | |
supine | blakað | |
participle (a6)1 | blakandi | blakaður |
present | past | |
first singular | blaki | blakaði |
second singular | blakar | blakaði |
third singular | blakar | blakaði |
plural | blaka | blakaðu |
imperative | ||
singular | blaka! | |
plural | blakið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse blaka, from Proto-Germanic *blak, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂- (“to swing back and forth”).
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -aːka
Verb
editblaka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative blakaði, supine blakað)
- (transitive, governs the dative) to flap using something, to flutter using something
- Að blaka vængjunum.
- To flap one's wings.
Conjugation
editblaka — active voice (germynd)
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að blaka | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
blakað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
blakandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég blaka | við blökum | present (nútíð) |
ég blaki | við blökum |
þú blakar | þið blakið | þú blakir | þið blakið | ||
hann, hún, það blakar | þeir, þær, þau blaka | hann, hún, það blaki | þeir, þær, þau blaki | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég blakaði | við blökuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég blakaði | við blökuðum |
þú blakaðir | þið blökuðuð | þú blakaðir | þið blökuðuð | ||
hann, hún, það blakaði | þeir, þær, þau blökuðu | hann, hún, það blakaði | þeir, þær, þau blökuðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
blaka (þú) | blakið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
blakaðu | blakiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að blakast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
blakast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
blakandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég blakast | við blökumst | present (nútíð) |
ég blakist | við blökumst |
þú blakast | þið blakist | þú blakist | þið blakist | ||
hann, hún, það blakast | þeir, þær, þau blakast | hann, hún, það blakist | þeir, þær, þau blakist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég blakaðist | við blökuðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég blakaðist | við blökuðumst |
þú blakaðist | þið blökuðust | þú blakaðist | þið blökuðust | ||
hann, hún, það blakaðist | þeir, þær, þau blökuðust | hann, hún, það blakaðist | þeir, þær, þau blökuðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
blakast (þú) | blakist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
blakastu | blakisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
Related terms
editNoun
editblaka
Latvian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle Low German blak, black, from Old Saxon *blak, from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz, still mentioned in late 19th-century dictionaries, but since then replaced by another 19th-century borrowing, tinte.
Noun
editblaka f (4th declension)
Declension
editDeclension of blaka (4th declension)
Synonyms
editSranan Tongo
editEtymology
editAdjective
editblaka
Derived terms
edit- blaka doti (“potting soil”)
- blaka-ai-pesi (“cowpea”)
- blaka-ede tingifowru (“black vulture”)
- blakakaiman (“black cayman”)
- blakaman (“black person”)
- blakamarkusa (“a kind of passion fruit”)
- blakapepre (“black pepper”)
- blakapina (“hairpin”)
- blakaweti-aka (“black-and-white hawkeagle”)
Descendants
edit- → Caribbean Hindustani: blaaka
Verb
editblaka
Descendants
edit- Aukan: baaka
See also
editColours in Sranan Tongo (kloru) (layout · text) | |||||
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redi | geri | blaw | grun | weti | |
blaka | broin | alanya | lila | [Term?] |
References
edit- Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “blaka”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary
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